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Chasing Kurt Vonnegut with Magical Cats
Chasing Kurt Vonnegut with Magical Cats
By Trisha Leon
August 11, 2014

A call for stories about supernatural felines transcends to Vonnegut and what it means to be a writer.

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Homage to George Orwell’s Nonfiction
Homage to George Orwell’s Nonfiction
By Benjamin Welton
August 08, 2014

Best known for penning the novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell spent the majority of his career as a brilliant journalist, essayist and critic.

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A Graveyard Tour of Literature
A Graveyard Tour of Literature
By Adam D'Arpino
August 07, 2014

Though dead, these authors still draw a crowd.

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James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Horny Man
James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Horny Man
By Thomas Andrews
August 04, 2014

Before the publication of his dirty letters, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man revealed Joyce to be quite the kink.

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What Would Zora Neale Hurston Think of Crowdfunding? And Other Important Questions
What Would Zora Neale Hurston Think of Crowdfunding? And Other Important Questions
By Rhys Griffiths
July 29, 2014

Biographers fill in our favorite writers’ takes on big-brand fashion, the War on Drugs and other aspects of modern life.

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Etgar Keret on Israel & Why Fiction Writers Should Discuss Politics
Etgar Keret on Israel & Why Fiction Writers Should Discuss Politics
By Freddie Moore
July 28, 2014

Keret’s new op-ed in The New Yorker resounds a very necessary call for writers to speak their minds.

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William Burroughs Ruined My Life
William Burroughs Ruined My Life
By Daniel Genis
July 24, 2014

He didn’t stick the needle in my arm or the place the knife in my hand, but he put the idea in my head.

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The Gold Fuss
The Gold Fuss
By Stephen Piccarella
July 24, 2014

The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt’s latest novel, has pit critics against one another, but what’s all the fuss about?

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How Raymond Chandler Took Down Sherlock Holmes
How Raymond Chandler Took Down Sherlock Holmes
By Benjamin Welton
July 23, 2014

In celebration of Chandler’s birthday, we look back on “The Simple Art of Murder,” his seminal essay which broke the British stranglehold on detective fiction.

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Meet Someone Who Robs Drug Dealers
Meet Someone Who Robs Drug Dealers
By Peter Madsen
July 18, 2014

It's a living.

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